<<<Don't know the exact number, but there were quite a few Pegasus radios made. Far more than the Kachinas 505's. I do have to wonder though how many Jupiters are run a majority of the time in Pegasus emulation mode. I suspect quite a few. I do know that for my purposes the Pegs have served me *very* well. In fact they played a big role in steering me into the whole world of Flex and PC based SDR's in general.>>>
Duane, I was at ten tec a few years ago visiting during their annual hamfest. the previous winter they had announced that the Peg would be discontinued and after remaining stock was sold that would be it. Someone asked Jack Burchfield why they discontinued it and he said that when they brought out the Jupiter, Pegasus sales dropped dramatically. It was apparent that the typical ham, or typical ten tec customer at least, wanted a front panel and knobs. I do not now if, and for how long, that will affect their future product designs. My admittedly subjective assesment of Kenwood's computer-run box verson of the the TS-2000, is that it also did not do very well in sales, compared to the front panel rig. Regardless of the opinion here, and this is a niche group, the major manufacturers seem to believe that for the time being, the vast majority of hams want traditional rigs. To me, that is the reason why there have not been any PC box-rigs from Elecraft, TT, SGC, Hiberling or the JA companies. It seems that Flex-Radio knows the limits of this market, given the forthcoming 5000D. 73, rob / k5uj -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20071001/85f79b06/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
